Trip Lever Drain

The drain trim has a trip lever style with a polished chrome finish that will match existing faucet finishes.

Trip lever drain.

When the stopper in your lever style bathtub drain won t pop up anymore because the linkage is damaged or clogged replace it with a much simpler lift and turn style tub drain. 1 in chrome triplever drain with plastic pipe item 30243 model 64b. The lift and turn drain has no complicated linkage to dig out and clean almost everything catches in the drain grate. A trip lever is a type of mechanism that is found in many different bathtub designs.

Includes all of the necessary parts to replace an existing drain or add a new tub. Designed to fit standard size tubs. The plunger has become stuck in the overflow tube and will not move up and down freely. Polished chrome finish matches most existing fixtures.

The linkage in a lever style drain attracts dirt and hair like a magnet and must be cleaned regularly in order to keep the drain working properly. Buy the tub stopper replacement kit at hardware. When the plunger is down it presses down on the stopper lever and forces the stopper up into the open position. A bathtub with a trip lever drain stopper works using an internal plunger that moves up and down inside the waste and overflow tube to pivot a drain stopper in the drain opening.

Separate the old float from the old trip by pulling out the pin holding the two pieces together. The kit came with extra piping but all i used was the trip drain its parts and the drain cover with the screw that goes with it. Now that you ve replaced the trip lever on your tub drain you notice it isn t properly stopping the water. Plumbers call it the linkage and when moving the.

When problems occur with this type of drain it is for one of two reasons. I set the old trip aside and replaced with the new trip drain. Watch this short video how to adjust the lever me. The purpose for the lever is to allow for the easy and quick movement of the tub stopper.

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